What is your operating system? => macOS 15.6 (Sequoia) on a Mac mini M4
What is your Shotcut version? => 25.07.26
Can you repeat the problem? => Yes, it does not appear only randomly
If a set of filters is applied to a movie track and I click on the “Filters Copy” button and choose “Copy all”, then the current set of filters is copied for being able to paste it into a new movie track. That’s great. But:
If I apply this copied filter set on another track and then change one or two settings of some filter, this change is also applied to the copy (that should stay in the background unchanged until I click on “Copy All” again). I would assume I can copy a specific filter setting and then apply this very set to a couple of tracks in the same way, even if I slightly adapt some of the filters on some tracks.
Hi, thanks for replying and testing. I have produced a short demo video that shows what I think should be a bug. Please find the video attached to this post.
BTW, I think if you change your workflow to be more efficient you can avoid this. Copy from Timeline, add to Playlist, and delete from Timeline is unusual even though it is possible. Something about this sequence reproduces it for me but not the following.
Try: open a file into Source player (drop there or File > Open), paste filters, adjust filters, and add to playlist.
Or: drag clip to Playlist, double-click new playlist item, paste filters, adjust filters.
Both of those are more typical, less steps, and less interference to a timeline project.
Hi, sorry for being offline for a while and thus not answering your post.
My workflow: I have, say, 15 videos on my Mac that need editing, I prefer using ShotCut over iMovie for this in most cases. Some of the videos need exactly the same set of edit options, and some use similar ones compared to others. In the past, when I had put together a set of edit options that had to be applied exactly or slightly differently to other videos as well, I copied the edit options and pasted them to the next movie. But now when I past them, change 1 or 2 slightly and DO NOT copy again, they are still altered when I apply the filters to the next movie. In my memory this changed when Shotcut introduced the three options in the Copy menu where there was only a single option beforehand, see Screenshot
import a video file via Drag and Drop to the timeline
apply a ripple delete left of the point where I inserted via D&D, so that only the movie is in the timeline and not a blank part
click on the movie in the timeline to activate the edits and apply some of them
When ready press CMD-C and SHIFT-A, followed by a delete, thus transferring the edited track to the playlist
when all videos are done and I have all 15 tracks in the playlist: click on “Export File”, select “From: All items on playlist” and go. Then all the edits are executed in the background. Works fine for me.
I’d be very interested in hearing what would be a more efficient way of editing multiple files and batch encoding them along with the edits to a new file.
This happens because there is one clipboard. The first time you copied all of the filters, they go onto the clipboard. When you copy the clip to add it to the playlist, that goes on the clipboard replacing what was there. That is normal and typical clipboard behavior. Currently, I do not want to add the complexity of multiple kinds of clipboards and having to explain to users that this goes to that but not this other thing, etc.
Your explanation does not justify the odd workflow to go from timeline to playlist. In fact it adds the additional steps of removing the blank space at the beginning of the timeline, copying the clip, and then deleting it. Just drag all of the clips to the playlist and double-click each one to trim it in the Source player and paste and adjust filters.
